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I'm Mayra, a wolf, modest, proud, and dependable. I was secretly hoping that I'd end up as one of those rare folks who shares his daemon's gender. That was a quiet, lovely detail in the first book.I have to say, this is much more gratifying than the Sex and the City quiz, which told me I was Miranda, over and over again, no matter how many times I answered the questions the way I thought Carrie would.

I ended up as a Tiger. My goodness! Not what I would have guessed, but I'm quite pleased, as I worried greatly about the daemons throughout Pullman's books. They seemed so vulnerable. Well, my daemon tiger is not vulnerable!

Have you looked at the daemon pantheon poster (it's buried on the meet-your-daemon page - move your mouse over the changing animals in the glass)? There are 31 varieties of animal possible. I wonder if the preponderance of ocelots is a self-selected function of being a Roger Reader. The same might be said of our collective modesty - it's hard not to be modest when you're surrounded by genius.And speaking of Genius, am I the only one who feels bad for Theodore, with his corn rows and ugly boots?

I think you folks got ocelots becauce that was Roger's result and the url appears to have been directly copied and pasted.

I am a solitary, sociable, and modest hare named Thaleron.

LOL, this reminds me of a job I had where we had to take personality tests (Myers Briggs, I believe) and post them on our office doors so we could all "get along better". Animals would have been more fun!

I too got an ocelot early Thursday, but today my first attempt gave me snow leopard daemon who is "solitary, responsible, modest,shy,and fickle." Fickle? I'd rather describe myself as open to changing my mind on things.

I think it would be interesting to have someone else who knows us answer the question and see what daemon we get. I said that I wasn't easily distractable, for instance, but I don't know if the editors at Books for Young Readers would agree. And Roger, I don't really get the modesty thing in your profile! I'm a tiger, and the first four adjectives really seemed right, but the fifth? "Outgoing, sociable, competitive, responsible, and shy."

I don't even understand how a person can be both outgoing and shy. But I love my tiger.

When I saw His Dark Materials as a play in London, the actors acted their daemons--it was neat.

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I've been the editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc, since 1996; previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. Received my M.A. in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a B.A. from Pitzer College in 1978.